Dr. Klara Mandic, a founder of the Serbian-Jewish
Friendship Association, who lost her entire family to pro-Nazi
thugs during World War II, was brutally murdered three days ago
in Belgrade. Dr. Mandic and other Yugoslav Jews had worked
tirelessly to expose anti-Serbian lies in the Western mass media.
(See the 'Open Letter to American Jews,' of which she was a
signer. It is posted below.)

The mass media in the West and the Washington-dominated
media in Yugoslavia are portraying this gruesome murder as a
robbery gone wrong. "Initial police findings indicated that
Klara Mandic...was killed during a robbery attempt." ( 'AP',
May 11)

But although robbery is a clear-cut affair - i.e.,
something is taken - the 'Associated Press' reported that:

"Police did not say whether any items
were missing. They did not say why they thought it was a
robbery attempt." ('AP')

"Killed during a robbery attempt"
suggests that the robbers murdered Dr. Mandic because she caught
them in the act or to prevent her from identifying them later.
But according to the Wire Service reports she was 'beaten to
death' and then 'shot in the back of the head' and finally set on
fire. ('AP' and 'AFP', 11 May.)

This is not the behavior of robbers anxious to
get the goods and escape. It is the behavior of murderers with a
task: to leave a message of terror.

As with any crime the question is: who gains?
The answer here is, only the current Yugoslav authorities and
their Washington controllers.

Belgrade's government, put in power by a coup
d'état Oct. 5, 2000, is increasingly isolated.

The Yugoslav economy is functioning at about 1/3
the pre-coup level. Prices have doubled, or worse. The country is
riddled with strikes opposing the government's plan to sell off
Yugoslav factories at fire sale prices to foreigner interests,
supposedly to pay old debts. Workers are particularly angry
because according to laws passed during the Miloshevich years,
when firms are privatized most shares must go to employees,
current and retired. The current authorities want that scrapped.

Desperate to prevent the formation of an
unstoppable opposition, the current regime has silenced all
dissenting media. For example, the popular Palma TV station was
recently ordered to stop broadcasting political shows.

There is a growing atmosphere of terror. Thugs
working for the authorities have beaten and/or arrested scores of
opponents.

THE NEW JUSTICE: MUSSOLINI MEETS
KEYSTONE COPS

On March 30, the current authorities made a
ridiculously botched attempt to murder or kidnap former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Miloshevich. They sent a group of men, without
identification and wearing women's stockings pulled down over
their faces. These men tried to break into the government-owned
resident where Mr. Miloshevich and his family were staying. (Milosevic's
own home had been hit by NATO bombs and was not fully repaired.)
They were foiled by hundreds of unarmed civilians, standing in
witness outside the house, and by the Yugoslav Army which was
guarding it.

At first the Belgrade authorities claimed they
had no idea who these stocking-masked men might be. But that
night they sent hundreds and then thousands of reinforcements to
the residence. Many had no identification and wore stockings over
their faces. Some were overheard speaking English. These
representatives of the new justice used clubs to attack unarmed
civilian witnesses, particularly middle-aged women.

Charging that the authorities were trying to
provoke civil war, Mr. Miloshevich surrendered. He immediately
filed a legal brief demanding his release.

People noted that the authorities mobilized
more men in the attempt to arrest (abduct?) the former Head of
State than they have deployed to defend Serbia from terrorist
invasion in the south. The authorities justified this by claiming
they had proof he had committed terrible crimes, of which they
suggested various possibilities, ranging from pilfering to murder.
They said they had to jail Mr. Miloshevich in order to make sure
he didn't 'interfere with witnesses.'

Yet though Mr. Miloshevich has been in jail
almost seven weeks, his accusers have not produced one witness
against him nor have they indicted him for anything, not even a
traffic violation.

Clearly the current authorities arrested
President Miloshevich on orders from Washington, as Richard
Holbrooke boasted in the 'NY Times Magazine' (April 8).

What is Mr. Miloshevich's actual offense? He
resisted Washington and he refused to crawl. (Prof. Michel
Chossudovsky has shown that, ironically, the "aid"
which the U.S. has promised to give Yugoslavia in exchange for
crucifying Miloshevich is in fact a fraud.) (7)

A week ago, Dusan Matic, lawyer for the former
security chief, Rade Markovic, who has also been arrested, told a
press conference that his client had been threatened with death
if he refused to testify against Mr. Miloshevich. In jail, Mr.
Miloshevich has been denied critically needed treatment for a
dangerous heart condition.

Many Yugoslavs who believed the current
regime's promises of a better life now feel betrayed. They are
turning against the regime, which has responded with terror to
silence opposition. The authorities have put up billboards with
the words, "We are watching you!", an imitation of the
slogan "Big Brother is Watching you!" from '1984',
George Orwell's book about a fascistic state. Six opponents of
the regime have been murdered under 'mysterious' circumstances.

Dr. Mandic was the seventh. The purpose of her
murder was to send a message to Yugoslav patriots in general, but
particularly to Yugoslav Jews who enjoy credibility in the West
and much respect in Yugoslavia, and who have given Washington a
major pain in the neck.

Over the past decade, these Jews have publicly
disputed the anti-Serbian statements made by American Jewish
leaders. The murder of Klara Mandic is intended to tell these
Jewish critics: Beware! You were run out of Croatia and Bosnia.
You were driven from Kosovo. You think you're safe? Shut up or
there will be more 'robberies'.

Meanwhile, American Jewish leaders have
responded to the terror-killing of Dr. Mandic with deafening
silence. Why? All evidence suggests she was killed to punish her
for an ancient crime: being a Jew who told the truth.

The American Jewish leadership, self-appointed
Protectors of Jews everywhere, were also silent in 1990-92, when
anti-Serb fascists seized control of Croatia and began
terrorizing local Jews, many of whom fled to Belgrade. Similarly,
Jews fled the Sarajevo regime of the Islamist, Alijah
Izetbegovic, a man ludicrously mis-portrayed by the American
media as a tolerant democrat. In both cases American Jewish
leaders said: nothing. (1)

Why? Because the Croatian and Bosnian fascists
were Washington's allies. Washington did not want them criticized.
And these 'tamed' leaders do whatever Washington dictates. And
today Washington dictates: silence Serbia's Jews.

In 1992, American Jewish leaders did speak out.
The Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the
American Jewish Congress placed a full-page advertisement in the
'N.Y. Times'. Leaders of these groups made speeches and wrote
articles parroting the Washington-Bonn lie that Serbs were the
new Nazis and Miloshevich the (latest) new Hitler, spreading
these slanders with evident relish at finding themselves on the
right side of a pogrom. By comparing Miloshevich, an opponent of
national chauvinism, to Hitler, they belittled the suffering of
Hitler's victims (including not only Jews but millions of Slavs,
'Gypsies', leftists, etc.) (2)

Gentiles tend to view Jewish leaders as experts
on genocide. So the Jewish leaders were invaluable to the anti-Serb
propaganda effort. They lent an air of credibility to doctored
pictures of supposed Serbian death camps in Bosnia, shown ad
nauseum all over the world in August, 1992 - pictures which have
been proven to be fakes. After all, if 'the Jews' said Serbs were
genocidal it had to be true. (3)

But while the leaders could fool many American
Jews, who, like most Americans, are uninformed about political
forces in the Balkans, or, for that matter, precisely where to
find 'the Balkans' on a map - they could not fool Jews in
Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Jews knew exactly whom the U.S. and Germany
were using as proxy forces in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo: the
political descendents of Hitler's local allies who killed tens of
thousands of Jews alongside perhaps 750,000 Serbs during W.W.II,
killed them in ways so brutal that visiting Nazis were shocked.
For example, by beating them to death and burning them. In other
words, just as they killed Dr. Klara Mandic.

Yugoslav Jews have tried to awaken world
opinion. Take one tiny but instructive example: it was a Yugoslav
Jew, teaching in New England, who made me aware of the full story
of what the Serbs had gone through in World War II, how much they
had suffered trying to protect their Jewish countrymen. I will
write more about that in another article, 'The Jewish Debt to the
Serbs'.

It was a Yugoslav Jew, Chedomir Pralinchevich,
who first told the world that several hundred thousand Serbs,
Roma ("Gypsies"), Jews and other non-Albanians were
being driven from Kosovo after its 'liberation' by NATO forces,
with the connivance of the NATO command. A Yugoslav Jew located
Mr. Pralinchevich and a Yugoslav Jew translated the interview. (4)

The wire service reports suggest that since (they
say) there was no sign of forced entry, Dr. Mandic probably knew
her attackers. This is nonsense. Terrorist forces in the employ
of the Belgrade authorities would of course have tools for
picking locks. Moreover, even a woman living alone will open the
door to certain people, for example, to policemen.

Both the 'Agence France Presse' and 'BBC'
stories also include the following (identically worded) paragraph:

"At least five of Milosevic's allies
have been killed since 1997, including Yugoslav defence
minister Pavle Bulatovic and Serbian deputy interior minister
Radovan Stojicic. Their murderers have never been found.
"(May 11)

The combination of "she knew her attackers"
and "Milosevic allies keep getting killed" is clearly
intended to suggest that this crime may be the work of the ever-accusable
Mr. Miloshevich. This is consistent with the Washington-directed
effort to blame all Washington's attacks on the victims of those
attacks. Thus the former head of Serbian TV was held in jail for
about two months (a high court just ordered that he be released).
The charge against him? Well, no charge was actually filed but
they were supposedly 'investigating' his 'responsibility' for the
deaths of 16 technicians and reporters killed when NATO bombed
Serbian television.

And so we are supposed to believe that for some
reason explicable only to himself, that mysteriously evil genius,
Miloshevich, has chosen this moment, when his personal survival
depends on rallying Serbian patriots to stand up and be counted -
that he has chosen this moment to have an old friend murdered in
a manner calculated to terrorize - whom? His own supporters!

In fact there is nothing mysterious about this
murder. Washington's proxies have been using terror for ten years.
Indeed, didn't Washington drop uranium-encased bombs on civilian
targets during 78 days of bombing in 1999? What is the difference
between blowing a child to bits with a cluster bomb and murdering
and mutilating Dr. Klara Mandic?

The Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists, who have
killed thousands of Serbs, 'Gypsies', anti-racist Albanians and
others in the most brutal ways, are trained by NATO Special
Forces. And the thugs who murdered Dr. Mandic, imitating the
methods of World War II Nazis, are in the employ of the
Washington-controlled gangsters who presently run Yugoslavia. (5)

SLANDER IN THE MEDIA

Having been murdered by NATO thugs, Dr. Mandic
is now being murdered again in the pro-NATO media. The 'AP' wrote:

"In 1990, Mandic helped found the
Society of Serb-Jewish Friendship, though her role in it was
viewed with suspicion by the local Jewish community." (May
11, 2001)

This is a lie and surely the 'AP' knows it.
Almost all Yugoslav Jews in fact agree with Dr. Mandic's pro-Yugoslav
sentiments, as expressed in the 'Open Letter', below.

Today the Yugoslav Jewish community is small.
Why? Because the predecessors of America's current Balkans allies
killed tens of thousands of Yugoslav Jews during W.W.II. Those
who were not killed mainly survived due to the heroic efforts of
Serbian people who risked their lives to hide them. (6)

Dr. Mandic's murder was a terrorist warning
from an increasingly isolated puppet regime in Belgrade, a regime
which, since it has seized control of Yugoslavia by means of a
coup, has given the ordinary people nothing but growing misery
and growing subservience to Washington.

Decent people will not forget this murder. Nor
will they forgive those who sent the killers.

-- JI, 13 May 2001

Below is the 'Open Letter' from the Serbian-Jewish
Friendship Society. One of the signers is Dr. Klara Mandic.

Open Letter to American Jews

Dear Fellow Jews,

We the Jewish members of the Belgrade chapter
of the Jewish Serbian Friendship society, dedicated to the
ongoing development of friendly relations between Jews and Serbs
wherever they live together, are taking this initiative to
address other Jewish organizations and their leadership.

We protest the involvement of Jewish
organizations, institutions and leading Jewish personalities in
the world for their condemnations and attacks on the Serbian
people in Serbia, Montenegro and the former Yugoslav republics.

It is with a deep sense of regret and irony
that we learn of widespread Jewish support of the distorted and
too often patently untrue depiction of the Serbian role in the
civil war in Bosnia. We particularly object to and protest Jewish
support of the foundationless, inhumane and cruel economic
measures taken against the population of Serbia and Montenegro.

Still more disturbing is the active role taken
by [these prominent] Jews in support of military intervention and
attacks against Serbs fighting against overwhelming odds for
their political rights and their basic survival.

It is incomprehensible to us that Jewish
institutions and individual Jews, who have themselves for
thousands of years been the victims of prejudice, exile and
annihilation, would participate in a racist pogrom of the same
nature against the Serbs - nothing can excuse Jewish involvement
in such a campaign.

Not even during the Nazi era, when the great
majority of German people supported Hitler, was there such an
organized and systematic propaganda campaign against Nazism or
particularly the German people as there is in the world today
against Serbia and the Serbian people.

Most importantly, Nazism constituted a bona
fide threat to the entire world: philosophically, politically and
militarily. It was no contrivance of Madison Avenue and
international political manipulation, as is the case today with
Serbs. It is yet the greatest of ironies that it was fascist
manipulations, in Germany, grotesquely similar to those of
Nazism, which served as the impetus for the break up of
Yugoslavia, set the stage for the ensuing civil war and the tone
of the geopolitical agenda which today dominates Western
perception of this tragedy.

These perceptions have been profoundly enhanced
by modern media technology alliances of political and economic
convenience and the woeful lack of historical knowledge, endemic
in Western populations, particularly in America. Millions of
people worldwide, well meaning people, have been manipulated;
Jews among them.

In the religious, nationalistic civil war
raging in Bosnia there is indeed brutality taking place. However,
the guilt for that brutality almost exclusively attributed to the
Serbs, is not founded in reality.

The Serbs today once again find themselves in a
position familiar to themselves and similar to that in which the
Jews have so often found themselves. For centuries, the Serbs
were the victims of the Turkish conqueror; subjugated, exiled and
forced into religious conversion on the one hand, and the object
of Teutonic oppression under the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the
other.

From 1941 through the end of World War II they
were, alongside Jews, the victims of the Holocaust under the
Nazis, the Ustashi and their Muslim allies under the leadership
of Hitler's trusted crony, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, El-Husseini.
Today, as the Serbs are again threatened life and limb by a new
generation of Fascists, Nazis and Muslim fundamentalists, and the
racist nationalism of Croatia under the anti-Semitic leadership
of Franjo Tudjman, they are labeled as "aggressors".

Confronted by these old enemies who attack them
in full regalia, replete with all the traditional symbols:
Swastika, Shahevnitza, Star & Crescent, the Serbs are
fighting for their biological survival on land that has been for
a millennium their own.

The entire history of the Serbs is one of
struggle for survival and freedom. They live on lands which for
centuries now have been the cross-roads between great and often
conflicting powers; the place where their borders meet: the
Christian church of the East and West - Orthodox and [Roman]
Catholic, the Great Schism, the Muslim drive West, pitted against
the German drive east.

For many hundreds of years the Serbs have
stood, in their fight for independence, as an unbridgeable
obstacle to both these great currents, the rivers of blood
swelling the shores of Serbian land with the valiantly spent
lives of their sons and daughters - generation to generation.

In World Wars I and II the Serbs again carried
the greatest burden and suffered the greatest losses in the
"allied" fight against tyranny in the Balkans. So often
alone in their struggle for liberation, they have always
respected the rights and freedoms of others. This principle - to
live in freedom - is what guided the Jews who fled here in the
great migrations from Spain, during the inquisition; Jews who in
exile here found a home and equality and friendship with Serbian
people.

We the authors of this letter are the living
Jewish legacy of that tradition. Ask us if you would know the
truth about the war here.

Ask any Jew living in this forsaken land, you
will be hard pressed to hear otherwise. It is no accident that
the Serbs, alone among the Yugoslav people, along with us, were
the victims of Hitler, Pavelic, Husseini and their Balkan Death
Machine in W.W.II.

Tragically, history is repeating itself in the
Balkans, with all the traditional factors in play - each
recognizable on the earmarked pages of time. Yet, as we study the
great text of history in continuum, we find that in ensuing years
since the Holocaust, additions have been made, new footnotes
attached, new alliances established, new methods applied in this
"age of information" which amplify that sad tradition.

The propaganda of Goebbels has become the Mega-propaganda
of CNN and the western media, in which the Serbs have become the
new Jews in this modern, high flying effort to bridge the "unbridgeable
obstacle" to new and greater interests.

In this great defamation and destruction of
Serbs, nothing has lent greater authority than the force of
Jewish moral support. This is the crowning propaganda
achievement, the jewel in the crown atop the New World Order's
Tower of Babel. Witting or unwitting, Jewish enlistment in this
campaign is a grim testimony to the breadth and depth, the sheer
reach of the New World Order - of the power they wield over the
material and minds of men.

Certainly, it is difficult for Jews in the
world to oppose or perhaps have full insight into the politics of
the governments under which they live. Though it would be to
their ultimate advantage to distance themselves, they perhaps
need not to do so at all cost. But at no cost should Jews permit
themselves to become an instrument, or worst of all, the secret
weapon employed against a people fighting for its survival,
independence and freedom. This can never be of any advantage to
the Jews and is beneath our dignity; indeed, it is to our
detriment and dishonor.

The Jews have survived in the midst of others
by remaining united and prepared to sacrifice in the name of what
we believe: the right and the just. Time has shown that those
beliefs were universal and lasting.

It would be unworthy of the great Jewish
tradition for us to find ourselves for very long numbered among
those who today support aggression against the rights and freedom
of Serbian people.

The Jewish-Serbian Friendship Society Belgrade

Dr. Nikola Rot Professor of Neurology,
University of Belgrade

Dr. Andreja Preger Professor em., University of
Arts, Belgrade

Dr Marko Anaf Professor, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Belgrade

Alexander Mosic, Chemical Engineer, Admisor on
Training UNIDO, India

Colonel Majer Altavac, Attorney, Colonel JNA,
retired

Enrico Josif, Composer, Professor of Musical
Composition, Member of Serbian Academy of Arths and Science

1) For some useful background
material on Izetbegovic, Tudjman and a debate between Jews over
anti-Serb slanders, see 'Some useful background material' at http://emperors-clothes.com/cos/useful2.htm

2) Miloshevich's views are
routinely distorted to this day. See 'Speech at Kosovo Field' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/milosaid.html

3) Emperor's Clothes co-produced a
movie which proves - not argues, proves - that the Bosnian death
camp pictures, featuring the famous tall, emaciated man behind
barbed wire, were a fraud. or more info see 'JUDGMENT!' at http://emperors-clothes.comFilm/astunnin.htm

5) There is overwhelming evidence
to support the charge that Washington and Germany created the
Kosovo Liberation Army and that Washington trained it, and so on.
As to the specific statement, made above, that NATO special
forces continue to train the KLA - which is now attacking
southern Serbia and Macedonia - that comes direct from the BBC.
See: 'Diplomats Admit NATO Backs KLA Invasion of Inner Serbia' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/admi.htm

6) The article, 'The Jewish Debt
to the Serbs' will be published soon.

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